2 Samuel 20:8 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa came to meet them.
Who acts: Pelethites, great stone, Amasa · What happens: be, come, meet · To what, where: great stone, Gibeon, Pelethites
This is 2 Samuel 20:8 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pelethites, great stone, Amasa), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 stone | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 stone | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stone | cop |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 stone | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stone | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stone | amod |
| 7 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | advcl |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 Gibeon | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 Gibeon | cop |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 Gibeon | case |
| 11 | Gibeon | Gibeon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 stone | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 stone | punct |
| 13 | Amasa | Amasa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 meet | mark |
| 16 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 came | advcl |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 meet | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
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- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Pelethites = pelethite | the great stone | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the great stone | Gibeon | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | past | Amasa | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | meet | to-infinitive | Amasa not said here | Pelethites = pelethite | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
The Hebrew of this verse
הֵ֗ם עִם־הָאֶ֤בֶן הַגְּדוֹלָה֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר בְּגִבְע֔וֹן וַעֲמָשָׂ֖א בָּ֣א לִפְנֵיהֶ֑ם וְיוֹאָ֞ב חָג֣וּר ׀ מִדּ֣וֹ לְבֻשׁוּ֗ וְעָלָ֞יו חֲג֥וֹר חֶ֙רֶב֙ מְצֻמֶּ֤דֶת עַל־מָתְנָיו֙ בְּתַעְרָ֔הּ וְה֥וּא יָצָ֖א וַתִּפֹּֽל׃ס
2 Samuel 20:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa came to meet them.
- And Joab was girded with his apparel of war that he had put on, and thereon was a girdle with a sword fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:2SA:609 of Mova's parse database.
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